Osteichthyes was named by Huxley (1880) [traditionally a class, but raised to an unranked clade including other vertebrate classes in modern classifications
traditionally a class, but raised to an unranked clade including other vertebrate classes in modern classifications
traditionally a class, but raised to an unranked clade including other vertebrate classes in modern classifications
traditionally a class, but raised to an unranked clade including other vertebrate classes in modern classifications
traditionally a class, but raised to an unranked clade including other vertebrate classes in modern classifications
traditionally a class, but raised to an unranked clade including other vertebrate classes in modern classifications
traditionally a class, but raised to an unranked clade including other vertebrate classes in modern classifications
traditionally a class, but raised to an unranked clade including other vertebrate classes in modern classifications
traditionally a class, but raised to an unranked clade including other vertebrate classes in modern classifications]. It is extant.

Pattonia couttsi was named by Peach (1899). Its type specimen is NMS G.1887.25.1080 and is an impression. Its type locality is East Kilbride, which is in a Brigantian terrestrial shale in the United Kingdom.

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.